Sonnets in 2016, update

Arie Koelewyn at the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book

Sonnet 95, printed by Sarah Teppen

Sonnets 18 and 43, from East Lansing, Michigan

Sonnet 54, printed by Juan Pascoe

Sonnet 65, printed by University College Oxford undergraduates in English

Sonnet 79, printed by the Elrod Press

Sonnet 150 under construction

Sonnet 89, printed by Annette Disslin

The Bodleian Library invited hand-press printers to send examples of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (printed by any form of relief printing in 2016) and the collection of 154 is taking shape. Sonnets arrive daily and reports of printing successes (and disasters) are also circulating. Juan Pascoe’s Sonnet 54 has arrived from Mexico, Ivan Gulkov has set Sonnet 85 in Russian at the Pillowface Press, California https://thebeautyofletterpress.com/printer/pillowface-press/,
Gordon Chesterman has sent Sonnet 128 with an ornate linocut border, Annette Disslin has shown an elegant design on grey, and, as an ‘extra,’ University College students printed a sonnet in college colours, under the supervision of expert letterpress printer and University College librarian, Liz Adams.

Arie Koelewyn, from The Paper Airplane Press, delivered sonnets 18 and 43 in person, from East Lansing, Michigan, and also visited the wooden common press in the Weston Library.